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Nigeria’s presidency has said that the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Bayo Ojulari, has not been forced to sign his resignation letter.
Sunday Dare, a presidential spokesperson, made this clarification in a terse statement exclusively to Newsmen on Saturday night.
His clarification comes as reports emerged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Department of State Services allegedly forced Ojulari to sign his resignation letter.
However, Dare debunked the claim, noting that there is no such thing.
“Not true,” he told Newsmen.
This followed a statement from NNPCL on June 27, 2025, which raised the alarm over plans to sabotage the state-owned oil firm’s new leadership.
In April 2, 2025 president Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Ojulari as GCEO of NNPCL after the removal of Mele Kyari.
The National Orientation Agency, NOA, Akwa Ibom State Directorate, has raised the alarm over the circulation of fake N1,000 notes in the riverine communities of the state.
In a press release issued on Friday by the agency’s spokesperson, Jackson Ibok, NOA listed the coastal communities where the fake notes are predominantly in circulation as Udung Uko, Mbo, Oron, Okobo and Ibeno.
The statement noted that the State Director of NOA, Mkpoutom Mkpoutom, acting on intelligence, confirmed that the act is being carried out by syndicates who flood local markets with counterfeit notes, defrauding unsuspecting POS operators and other traders.
According to him, “they flood the local markets with fake One Thousand Naira notes with batch numbers 364232 and 898248 with blurred portrait, watermarks and irregular security features.”
Mkpoutom, describing the act as unpatriotic and heinous, said it has the potential to distort the economy.
